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Disclosure: I work at Microsoft but not on the VS Code team. I’m a huge fan of VS Code, however. I’m not going to get into a whole thing about the telemetry in
by filmgirlcw 7y ago
Disclosure: I work at Microsoft but not on the VS Code team. I’m a huge fan of VS Code, however.
I’m not going to get into a whole thing about the telemetry in VS Code because I don’t think it will be helpful/productive, but I will point out that anyone who wants to turn telemetry and crash reporting off can do so in the Settings part of VS Code — no need to install a separate app [1]. As that page makes clear, however, individual extensions themselves may have their own telemetry that can be turned on/off in their own settings, assuming the developer has chosen to do that.
[1]: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/telemetry https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/telemetry
- alasdair_ 7y agoRelated topic - any idea why every single time I disable telemetry in Windows, it gets re-enabled in the next update no matter how many times I make it clear I don't want it? Also, does VS Code ever do the same thing?
- filmgirlcw 7y agoAbsolutely no idea on Windows — but I’ll look into this and see if I can find an answer (which might be difficult because it may depend on your OEM or some other issues). As for Code — it should respect your choice across updates — it’s a line in the settings.json file. If you use an extension like Settings Sync (which uploads the contents of your Settings file and your list of installed extensions to a GitHub gist), you can even insure that option will persist across other installs. If you do a clean install or remove/alter that settings file, you would need to re-enable that, but it should persist.